Paring knife



T. BELL PARING KNIFE Nov. 12, 1929.

Filed Jan. 15, 1927 Patented Nov. 12,1929

UNITED STATES:

THOMAS BELL, or OTAGO, NEW ZEALAND PABING KNIFE Application filed January 15, 1927. Serial No. 161,278.

This invention relates to hand tools designed for the purpose of peeling potatoes and the like tubers, or apples, pears and the like fruit.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a peeler with an adjustable paring blade for varying thicknesses of peel.

Other objects are to provide a light, cheap tool, and have associated with the adjustable blade carrier a picker for the purpose of removing specks and other defective parts.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the tool.

Figure 2 is an end elevation of Figure 1 showing in broken lines an adjustment of the paring blade.

The handle and blade carrier are preferably of one part: the handle portion l is produced for a length suitable to the width of the hand: the end 2 of the said portion being returned to be joined with the body part at a point approximately where the blade is fixed, indicated at 3.

The blade carrier l is peculiarly shaped, being produced to the safety edge 5 of the blade carrier diagonally, the diagonal portion 6 being of suliicient length to permit a pivot member or pin 7 and two adjusting screws 8 and 9 to be mounted thereon for the purpose of adjusting the blade 10 by tilting the latter as shown in Fig. 2. The said safety edge 5 is produced from the diagonal part parallel with the handle and the end 11 of the said safety edge is bent backwards at an angle equal to the diagonal portion 6 to render the shape of the tool symmetrical: the length of the diagonal part 11 is sufficient to enable a pivot member or pin and two adjusting screws to be mounted thereon, but theend 12 of the said diagonal part is produced beyond the back edge 13 of the paring blade 10 whereon a chisel shaped blade is formed to providea picker.

The blade 10 is fashioned to correspond with the shape of the carrier: that is to say, its ends are diagonally shaped, and have holes therein to engage with the adjusting screws 8 and 9 and the width of the blade is sufiicient to embrace the said screws, the safety edge 5 of the blade carrier part is preferably of the carrier and supporting the blade for tilting movement, and adjusting means between the blade and end bars on each side of the pins, whereby the sharpened edge of the blade may be adjusted with respect to the longitudinal bar of the carrier.

2. An improved paring knife including a blade carrier having pins extending from the ends thereof, a blade mounted on the car rier and supported against the pins, and ad justing screws extending through the blade and into the carrier on opposite sides of each of the pins, whereby the blade may be tilted on the pins as a fulcrum to adjust the cutting edge of the knife with respect to the lower edge of the carrier.

8. A paring knife including a handle, a skeleton carrier comprising a longitudinal bar and end bars arranged at an angle to the longitudinal bar, pins extending from the end bars, a blade fitted against the pins and overlying the longitudinal and end bars, and

adjusting screws extending through the blade and into the end bars of the carrier on opposite sides of each of the pins, whereby the blade may be tilted on the pins and its cutting edge adjusted with respect to the lower edge of the carrier.

In witness whereof I atlix my signature.

- THOMAS BELL. 

